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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
And I saw a nexv heaven and a new
earth; for the first heaven and the first
earth were passed away. And I heard
a great voice out of heaven saying, Be
hold the tabernacle of God is with men,
and He will dwell with them, and they
, shall be His people, and God himself shall
be with them, and be their God. And God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes;
and there shall be no more death, neither
sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be
any more pain; for the former things arc
passed away.—Revelation 21:1, 3, 4.
Why Georgia Democrats
Should Su'b'faort McAdoo
FOR citizens to whom politics spells more
tlwin self-interest the first consideration
in choosing a party leader is principle,
and the second is expediency. The first
makes effort worth while, the second makes
it count. The Journal believes that
on grounds both of principle and of
expediency Georgia Democrats, in their
forthcoming presidential primary, should
support William G. McAdoo. He is,
as we see it, the man who qiight to be
nominated by the national convention; and,
of candidates now in the field, is the only
one who can be nominated. Moreover, he is
the type of statesman ..ho for the nation's
good ought to be its next president; while
none of an illiberal or reactionary type would
leave Democracy so much ns a fighting '
chance against Republican intrenchments.
If, then, we are to vote ayailingly, on March
19, next, and are not merely to toss our
, ballots to the wind, it behooves us as
good citizens and discerning Demct , rats to re
member Mr. McAdoo's qualifications.
They commend him as highly In matters of
principle as in those of expediency. This is
not to say that every act and utterance of
t his official career merits approval, for that
could not truly be said of any civic leader,
from the day of Moses down. Certain It Is,
however, that William G. McAdoo has been
ever mindful of the national interests en
trusted to him, ever attentive to the needs l
the rights and the reasonable hopes of the
rank and file, ever the steady thinker whose
1 ideals are sobered by business experience
! and whose devotion is to practical justice.
I These are the fundamentals of forward
> going statesmanship. Well aware we
are that certain interests hold it against
him that he is popular with great groups of
working people, with the bread-winners and
the bread-producers. Had he courted their
good will by demagogic acts or words, he
would not deserve it and, what is equally
certain, he would speedily lose it. But when
he commands it by virtue of having stood for
a fair deal for the humblest as well as the
mightiest, then is his popularity a credit to
his principles no less than to his polities.
William G. McAdoo is a Liberal, not a
Reactionary. Those who imagine that De
mocracy's best cue in the coming campaign
. is to imitate Republican policy rather than
; to challenge it, will find him wholly unsuited
to their plans. His belief could not be
stated more frankly or more effectively than
by himself in his long-to-be-remembered ad
dress in Atlanta on Friday last, when he was
heard by perhaps the. greatest audience in
the city's political annals. "We have
one reactionary party in America,” he
h said, "the Republican partv There is
P not room for two. The Democratic
I party must inflexibly set its face to the fu-
’ ture, and so render the greatest service that
’ can be rendered for the security of our insti-
tutions. Enlightened progress is the safe
guard against wild excursions into the field
I of extreme and vague theories.”
I Un this principle, first of all, William G.
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THE ATLANTA I'lti-fti.r.iu.) ttovunAli
McAdod appeals to The Journal as being
’■••orthy of the suffrage of his native Georgia
and of his fellow Americans. Even were it
impossible to win the nomination or impos
sible to win the election with that principle,
wo still should prefer to go down with such
colors flying than to sail as a recreant.
But the fact is that we can not win without
it. The rank and file of the Democratic
party, despite some would-be bosses, is as
forward-minded now as when it nominated
Woodrow Wilson In 1912; and, unless all
omens fail, the final choice of the convention
at New York will be os decisive a victory for
progress over reaction as was that at Balti
more. Hence the forecast of so competent
and impartial an observer as David Lawrence
that khe McAdoo forces are certain, if the
present trend continues, to control the con
vention and to name tty© party’s standard
bearer. This, on reflection, Is seen to be
the policy of common sense acting upon the
obvious requirements of the political situa
tion. For the»Democrats might as well nomi
nate Coolidge himself as to pit a reactionary
against him. And by the same token Geor
gia as well might abandon in advance all
hope of Influence in the national convention
as to cast in- her lot with an unprogressive
cause.
Expediency and principle alike bid us sup
port McAdoo the Liberal, McAdoo the
Leader. Only thus can we serve the best
interests of the commonwealth, the best in
terests of the party, the best Interests of the
nation. Experience has taught the folly of
diverting the state’s vote from practical
channels and constructive - ends to political
eddies that run nowhither and vanish in
foam. Why repeat the futility of 1912, when
we turned away from Wilson and lost? Or
the fiasco of 1920, when again we took a
candidate who stood no chance to be nomi
nated, and so sacrificed our Influence and
serviceableness in the convention?
There are two candidates in the coming
primary. One is a Georgian bred and born.
The circumstance that Mr. McAdoo, son of a
Confederate veteran whose fortunes fell to
ashes in Sherman’s red path to the sea, was
reared within our borders, would not of Itself
alone commend him to our suffrage; but
when coupled with his splendid achieve
ments, his historic services to America, and
liis unequaled fitness for Democratic leader
ship today, it can but appeal, and appeal
mightily, to our hearts and to our heads.
Not only Is he the one Georgian in the field,
but he ig also the one candidate of national
consequence. In state after state "favorite
sons” have been advanced against him in
attempts to check his progress; but while
these are forgotten, after playing their little
parts, the McAdoo candidacy goes steadily
forward, looming ever in the conti
nent’s view. Let us, then, as Georgians, sup
port him, first, because he deserves to win;
and because, furthermore, he only of the can
didates in our primary stands a reasonable
chance to win, either in the national conven
tion or in the ensuing campaign. Let us cast
our votes for progress, and cast them so that
they will count.
QUIZ
Any Tri-Weekly Journal reader can
get the answer to any question puzzling
him by writing to The Atlanta Journal
Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has
kin director, Washington, I). C., and in
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ATLANTA OFFICE.
Q. How many letters does the Pope re
ceive? H. A. P.
A. It is said that he receives about 22,000
pieces of mail a day. Twenty-five secreta
ries are necessary to handle it.
Q. Please describe the plan of the cathe
dral in whicli Woodrow Wilson’s body is en
tombed and tell its denomination. C. G. P.
A. This Episcopal cathedral is called the
Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, and is
situated at Wisconsin avenue and Woodley
road, Washington, D. C. It is Gothic style
and ranks in length with the cathedrals of
Canterbury and York, and suggests the
mighty Durham in its beauty.
Q. Will frozen milk make children sick?
H. C.
A. The authorities say that when milk
freezes the solids and the watery substance
separate, giving it an insipid taste, but there
is no chemical change, and they therefore
see no reason why such milk should make
children ill.
Q. How much capital is invested in the
motion picture business? C. O'D.
A. The Motion Picture Producers and Dis
tributors of America, Inc., states that there
is a practical investment in real estate,
studios, equipment and salaries of over
5500,000,000, with probably $50,000,000
paid in salaries, $200,000,000 paid annually
in production and nearly three-quarters of a
billion paid annually for admission, with an
annual turnover in the business of over one
billion dollars.
Q. Did the parents of Martin Tabert, who
was killed in a Florida convict camp, collect
any damages for his death? C. L.
A. On November 28 the Putnam Lumber
company settled by the payment of $20,000.
a suit for damages brought by Tabert’s
parents.
Q. Who is the original of the leading char
acter in "The Star Rover,” by Jack London?
I R. G.
A. A prisoner in San Quentin named Mor
' roll was the original. When he was a boy he
I was a member of an outlaw gang in Califor-
I nia. He was captured and condemned to life
I imprisonment. Because he rebelled he was
condemned to years of solitary imprisonment
jin a dark cell. For long periods he was
placed in a “jacket” into which he was
strapped as tightly as three men could
him. Morrell found that while he was being
tortured he could hypnotize himself. His
j experiences were incorporated in Jack Lon
don't novel.
Q. What metals are more precious than
I gold? A. O. D.
I A. There may be a few others that are
[also more valuable than gold, though we can
'list but six: Radium, iridium, rhodium, plat
i inum, osmium, and palladium.
SLANDER
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
What has gone before — Miriam Fol
well spends the day at an out-of-the-way
place with Warren Holmes, a man she
knows only slightly. They miss the last
train hack and .Holmes asks her to be
his wife. Angrily she refuses.- Now
go on wit It the story.
CHAPTER IV
Buck to the Past
MIRIAM FOLWELL spent her’' childhood
in a small town near Buffalo, N. Y.
Her mother died when she was eight,
her father when she was still younger, and
she lived with her uncle and aunt until she
was eighteen, when she had come to the city
to win her way. Her aunt had always spoken
of her as a strange child, and certainly Mi
riam was not at all like the stolid, tow-head
ed children who were her cousins and true
children of their parents.
She was dreamy and imaginative. She
liked being alone, and she was always self
conscious and strange with children of her
own age. Her aunt, Mrs. Hobson, was kind,
but she felt uncomfortable with Miriam. She
looked forward to the time when the girl
would marry and have a home of her own,
but it wasn’t long before she realized that
there was no one in the town that Miriam
would condescend to notice.
Delia Hobson, who was two years younger
than Miriam, was what her mother called a
normal girl. She had no "highfalutin’
ideas,” and when Ezra Clark, the drug clerk,
showed a disposition to call, Delia was sen
sibly responsive, and gave every indication
of marrying young and having two or three
babies before she was twenty-five.
Miriam was different. It wasn’t that she
was snobbish, she w..s pleasant enough with
every one, but there was an air of quiet re
serve about her, there was an even look in
her eyes when they rested on a man that
seemed to see beneath the surface of things.
She was not beautiful, but she was exqui
sitely made. Her feet and hands were long
and slim, her ankles were small-boned and
delicate, and she carried her slender body so
well it she seemed to sway rather than
walk.
Delia, like her mother, was large and
capable and stolid. Miriam was like a
princess, the simplest clothes gave her dis
tinction, and she was happiest when she was
cutting into material and making a dress for
herself.
When she was eighteen she had a serious
talk with her uncle and aunt. She wanted to
go to the city and study dress designing. If
they would advance five hundred .dollars she
would pay it back with interest just as soon
as she was self-supporting.
This sounded like a wild scheme to Luke
Hobson. Five hundred dollars was a lot of
money and how could he be sure that Miriam
would make good? He shook his head, he
used every argument he could think of to
persuade the girl to remain in Burnside, but
there was a quiet purpose about Miriam, and
a great deal of logic in wbat she had to say.
Here she could do nothing. She would prob
ably never marry, and she would be a burden
to them always. But in the city she could
make good, she was sure of it, and she would
never ask them for another penny.
“But if you shouldn’t make good, if vou
used up all your money, what then?” Mrs.
Hobson asked tearfully. "I couldn't sleep
nights thinking of it. Would you come back
if you found you couldn't make a go of it?”
Miriam leaded over and took her aunt’s
toil-worn fingers in hers. "Os course I would,
but it won’t be necessary. You wait and see.
I’ll make good and I’ll pay back every cent of
the money you lend me.”
And so it was that Luke Hobson, against
his own judgment, gave Miriam th© five hun
dred dollars, and in spite of herself, although
she called herself a wicked woman, Mrs. Hob
son breathed a sigh of relief when Miriam
left.
"I’ve done my best for Ethel’s child, any
way,” she said tearfully to her husband, "but
somehow she never was one of us. I couldn’t
get close to her, and perhaps it’s all for the
best that things have come out this way.”
CHAPTER V
The Morning Alter
MIRIAM had been less than a year in
New York, and she was already mak
ing good. Her position as designer
with one of the large dress houses provided
her with an ample salary and she was ut
terly and entirely independent. Seeking a
place to spend her vacation, she bad discov
ered Pine Notch, set in the midst of the
Berkshire Hills. It was at the Pine Notch
Hotel that she had met Warren Holmes, and
it was from there that they had set forth
that morning to this out-of-the-way place
fifty miles distant. Os course, she had not
dreamed of unpleasant consequences. She
was accustomed to doing as she liked and she
saw no harm in accepting Warren Holmes’
invitation. But taking a day’s trip with him
was one thing and remaining overnight in
this strange little inn was quite another.
Miriam had learned early how perilous is
the way of the girl making her way alone.
She knew how important it was to observe
the conventions and alone in the tiny bed
room she was beset with doubts and fears.
That woman downstairs wljp had eyed her
so suspiciously. What did she think? What
was going on in the mind of the hotel pro
prietor? What would people say when she
returned to the hotel in the morning accom
panied by Warren Holmes? What would
| they think when it became known that she
had spent the night alone with him? Os
course she could explain, but would they be
lieve her?
Her thoughts flew suddenly to Holmes’
proposal of marriage and in spite of herself
her lips twitched, into a smile. Not for a
l moment did she believe that he really cared
for her. All that was nonsense, of course, a
, regular story hook situation with the hero
j rii. .. g chivalrously to the aid of the heroine
j who was in danger of losing her fair name.
"It might have been a great deal worse.”
j she mused. “If he had been another kind of
i man he might have made things very un
i pleasant for me.” She tried to comfort her
[ self with this trend of thought, but it was
| late before she finally dropped into a trou
! bled sleep, it was light when she woke, and
; as she sprang to her feet and began to dress
I hurriedly, she realized that her spirits were
i lighter. Things did not look so dark as they
1 did last night, and it wasn't until she met
' Warren Holmes down in the lobby that reali
i zation swept over her. He looked as if he
had not slept, his dark regular features were
I stern and set, but he spoke to her as though
I nothing had happened, and Miriam answered
I his greeting shyly. •
"If you can forego the pleasure of break
) fast, we can make that early train,” he told
! her gravely. “We'll be in Bine Notch shortly
! after eight.”
Tine Notch! In imagination Miriam visu
j alized it. the rocking chair brigade ready for
- any choice bit of scandal that might come
' their way, Mr. Maltby’s wife, a typical New
• Englander, who had taken Miriam tentatively
' under her wing. Well, she would have to
I face it. she would have to walk into the Pine
i Notch Hotel with her head held high, there
■ was no way out.
i In silence she followed Warren Holmes
1 over to the station, and fifteen minutes later
‘ the.v were on the train.
As the train clattered along the tracks
| M ...iiu lei me i” reasingly conscious of the
A CABLEGRAM from Blankenburg, 1
Z\ which appeared recently in the lead- j
ing daily newspapers in the United
States, contains the wisest suggestion yet j
made for the relief of the unhappy condi-1
t.ions prevalent in Germany. Indeed, this
suggestion points
to the only real
hope before that
distressed nation.
T h e cablegram
was as follows:
"Three thou
sand Evangelical
Christians, Ba p
tists, Methodists,
Lutherans and
members of vari
ous other denomi
nations, attended
the annual Bible
conference held
recently in Blank
enburg.
“The delegates
to this conference are moved by the desire
to get at the basic truths of Christianity and
apply them to the present upset condition of
the world. There was no talk of the Ver
sailles treaty or the responsibility of govern
ments.
/‘The conference went on record as being
of the opinion that Germany can expect no
relief from mankind in its present distress,
but must turn to God if it desires to be freed
from trouble. Sincere penitence and return
to God were pointed out. as the sure remedies
for the unhappy state into which the German
people have fallen. One speaker said God
might lead Germany to a spiritual awakening
through hard trials, and thus permit the
country to render service to the entire world.
“The resolutions adopted set forth much
the same views that have been voiced by
Count Keyserling, the philosophical leader,
who is constantly telling the German public
that spiritual regeneration would do far more
to cure Europe’s present ills than all sorts of •
proposed economic and financial remedies.”
Os course, to many men these resolutions
adopted by the Conference of evangelical |
Christians at Blankenburg will seem to be
quite visionary, if not fanatical. But such I
men of the world aye either ignorant of his
tory or blind to its lessons.
Nothing is more clearly taught by every
chapter in the history of the human race than
tlvt the destiny of nations is determined by
moral and religious forces rather than by
economic schemes and political arrangements.
This principle is approved by the highest
authorities among philosophers and states
men.
Max Muller says, “The real history of man i
is the history of religion.”
Rousseau declared, “Never was a state i
founded that did not haVe religion as it-s I
basis.”
Guizot affirmed that “all political and so- j
n! ?.l questions refer for their ultimate solu- j
tion to the religious principle.”
Edmund Burke asserted, “We know that
religion is the basis of civil society and the
fruitful source of all blessing and comfort in
human intercourse.”
Wendell Phillips expressed the same gen
eral principle more vividly on this wise:
“The answer to the Shastas is India; the
answer to Confucianism is China; the an
swer to the Koran is Turkey; the answer to i
the Bible is the Christian civilization of Trot- '
esfant Europe and America.”
There can be no revival of the religions of !
the heathen world. Their gods are dying i
beyond the hope of any resurrection. The
only hope of those populous nations is in i
their conversion to Christianity.
But the case,, of the Christian nations is
quite different. If the Christian religion lan
guishes or perishes among them, there is ;
nothing they can turn to as a substitute for I
it. Revival of Christian life among them
must be their hope, and such revivals are fre
quently necessary.
Christianity is the only religion in the '
world under which backsliding is possible. :
There can be no backsliders among the
Brahmins, the Buddhists or the Mohamme- ,
dans; for they are at the bottom already. I
Their religions put no strain on their moral ‘
powers, and do not propose to lift them to
any level higher than that of fallen human j
nature. ■
But it is far otherwise with Christianity, j
The religion of the Christ meets man in the
altitudes of his being and calls him to the 1
loftiest heightszof heavenly life. Many, fail- !
ing to reach this high level of life, fall back, ,
and become, first lukewarm anal then disor
derly in their conduct.
Only a true religion can produce a back- I
; slider. Ancient Israel was often a Lack- i
slider, but there were no backsliders among j
[ the votaries of Baal or Holoch. The book of I
: Judges, In the Old Testament, is a. record of j
backsliding and bondage, and of revivals and ;
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irvin S. Cobb
In a southern city there formerly resided '
a wealthy man who had little to commend ;
him save his wealth. He called himself a j
private banker, but rumor had it that shav- I
ing a note until it was bled white, and usury j
in all its branches, were really his favorite 1
vocations. He believed that charity should
begin at home—and stay there.
By foreclosing mortgages and seizing
widows’ cows for debt and other forms of
financial expediency, he amassed, a large
estate. And, when, in the fullness of time,
he passed on to his reward —-whatever it was
—his family gave him an elaborate funeral.
The services at the church were well un
der way. .An imported tenor had ended ;
“Abide With Me,” in dulcet tones. The of
ficiating clergyman, having prayed, was start- ,
ing his discourse. He had a difficult job, j
though. It was difficult to extol the de
ceased without taking liberties with the
truth. Still, the minister was doing fairly i
well, considering the material he had to
work on, when a belated citizen entered and
slipped into a pew alongside a local attorney
who was harkening to what the preacher
said, with a cryptic smile on his face.
“How far along have they gone?” asked
the newcomer in a whisper.
"Just opened for the defense,” said the
lawyer.
(Copyright, 1924.)
After listening to the boarder across the
hall strum the banjo monotonously for an
hour, Mr. Hash Brown stepped over and
asked the performer where he learned tn
play.
“I have been taking a course of instruc
tion by mail,” was the reply.
"You only seem to know a few chords.”
"Yes. but when I get some more money to
send the man I’ll know more. I sent him
ten plunks and he taught me ten plinks.”
ict at Warren Holn.< presence beside
her was o< lly disconcerting. She kept re
membering incidents of yesterday, the strange
feeling she had experienced on the mountain
walk, the suddenness o his proposal of mar
riage. Last night .he had thought of his
proposal as ridiculous, but this morning it
no ... gei seemed funny to her. Was there
by chance any truth in what had said?
Had he been in earnest when he had said tha:
he loved her?
Thursday: “Scandal,” and "Miriam De
cides on Flight." This splendid new storj
will appear in copious installments, j
OLD-TIME RELIGION
BY BISHOP IV. A. CANDLER
L *
T( V,.M> . MARI II I*s, IIRII.
restored power and prosperity. In like man
ner Christian nations decline or advance, ac
cording as tile Christian religion among them
languishes or flourishes. Their eras of great
est. prosperity are marked by the revivals of
vital piety among them.
Hence, it has been said by a great Ameri
can essayist and theologian, “Scarcely can a
more memorable exhibition of God be found
than that presented by a revival of religion.
Historians seldom make note of so obscure an
event; yet if the secret connection of re
vivals with the destiny of nations could be
disclosed, they would appear to be more
critical evolutions of history than Gothic in
vasions. A volume has been compiled nar
rating the decisive battles of the world. But
more significant than this, and probing deep
er the divine government of the world would
be the history of revivals.”
He does not overstate the facts of the his
tory of revivals. They have saved nations
from ruin and revolution, and changed the
life of continents.
The revival under Luther changed, the face
of continental Europe. The revival under
John Knox made Scotland what it has been
from his time until the present day.
To the vast importance of the Wesleyan
Revival, the sceptical historian, Leckey, bears
this strong testimony in his great work en
titled “England in the Eighteenth Century:”
“Although the career of the elder Pitt, and
the splendid victories by land and sea that
were won during his ministry, form unques
tionably the most dazzling episodes in the
reign of George 11, they must yield, I think,
in real importance to that religious revolu
tion which shortly before had been begun in
England by the preaching of the Wesleys
and Whitfield. The creation of a Jarge, pow
erful and active sect extending over both
hemispheres and numbering many millions
of souls, was but one of its consequences. It
also exercised a profound and lasting influ
ence on the spirit, of the Established Church,
upon the amount and distribution of the
.moral forces of the nation, and even upon the
course of its political history.” To the same
purpose testifies John Richard Green in his
“History of the English People.” He says
the Wesleyan Revival “changed the whole
, tone of English society, the Church was re
stored to life and activity. Religion carried
tex the hearts of the people a fresh spirit of
moral zeal, while it purified our literature
and manners.”
Kindred and consequent revivals in Amer
ica mightily affected the birth and progress
of the United States.
From the period of “The Great Awaken
ing,” which began under the ministry of
Jonathan Edwards at Northampton in 1734,
until the present time our country has been
I refreshed and reinvigorated by great re
! vivals such as the “Great Revival of 1800”
and “The Revival of 1858.” Without these
blessed visitations of grace it could not have
: attained its great power and prosperity. The
I facts are set forth in detail in a book en
titled “Great Revivals and the Great Repub
lic,” and published by Lamar &. Barton,
Nashville, Tenn., to which the reader is re
ferred for fuller information upon the sub
ject.
It must not be overlooked that revivals in
Great Britain during the Jast hundred years
have been quickly communicated to America,
and revivals in our country have run rapidly
to Great Britain, so that these great nations
have Iw'come distinctly evangelical in the
prevailing type of Christianity among their
peoples.
But Germany has not had in the last four
hundred years a revival of regenerating pow
er and national extent.
Hence Christianity in Germany has be
come paralytic through a widespread ration
alism together with an enfeebling ritualism.
For the want of a vital and vitalizing
Christianity the moral life of the nation as a
whole has steadily declined, until in 1914 it
was totally obscured by the ethical midnight
darkness in which all moral distinctions be
came invisible and benighted souls cried out
“Might Makes Right.” Here and there
among the German people have been groups
of holy men, like Tholuck and Stier and Lut
[ hardt, and others, who have lamented the
spiritual dearth in their fatherland, without
; being able to relieve the situation. But they
have borne their testimony and their faithful
I witness has not been fruitless.
I Now it appears that a company of devoted
; souls is calling for a revival of religion in
Germany. It is a good sign. It will be a
godsend to Germany if their call is heeded.
A great, revival in Germany would do more
j than anything else possible to heal the
wounds of the nations of Continental Europe
and restore to them peace and prosperity.
Germany has tried the poison of rational
i ism, and the results are known and read of
: all mankind.
Let Germany now return to God in godly
: repentance and simple faith in Jesus Christ
: our Lord.
THE POWER OF A NEW IDEA
By Dr. Frank Crane
ANEW idea is a real contribution to life.
A new idea stimulates us, fecundates
the mind, sets the soul in new vistas,
and profoundly alters one’s whole being.
The man who can give me a new idea has
put me under obligation. He has dropped
: a seed in my garden, and there's no knowing
' what may be the fruit thereof. He has
smitten the dull rock Qf my imagination
and a fountain gushes forth.
It takes two to make a new idea-- —a
hearer and a speaker. I may go to a book
full of great thoughts, but they pass before
my eye and “find nothing in me.” And
then I may meet a farmer and pass a quarter
i of an hour and get from his shrewd talk
. precisely the spark to explode my powder.
It is curious how some people find you,
I and others move always spiritually at stellar
distances from you. It is wholly a matter
of intellectual elective affinity and has noth
ing to do with literary taste; it is a personal
matter. I like Maeterlinck for the same rea
son that I like ham and eggs, and I do not
like Browning for the same reason I do not
like mutton. Yet I recognize the religious
and dietetic superiority of mutton. But 1
don’t like it.
Horace Bushnell has been to me a well of
inspiration, yet I never could find anything
in Beecher. Far be it from me to make a
literary criticism out of what is a pure mat
ter of personal appetite.
I adore Montaigne and Emerson and Thor
eau. All of these have upturned my life and
raised crops in me—such as they are.
Hence my library goes on decreasing. 1
used to buy books for what the world
thought of them. Now I select them by
the test of what the.v can do to me. I have
given away my Tennyson; he is doubtless
great, but not for me. I have sold rny nice
row of Balzac books for the same reason; it
may be blasphemy, but he bores me. On the
contrary, my soul leaped to Flaubert, and
to Amiel; Oscar Wilde's “De Profundis”
shattered and thrilled me.
All this is of no particular value except
to illustrate that for a new idea to ger
minate there must nor. only be a sower but
a suited soil. We must respect the ap
petencies of the soul.
But when the new idea comes, how it
lodges, burns and glows! How old and set
notions topple over like the stage scenery
of an old wall! How one’s own invention
and creative power is invigorated!
and this is curious, very many people,
sometimes 1 think the majority, do not like
HER MONEY
BY CAROLYN BEECHER
CHAPTER LXXI
UPON Peter's return the anxious look
was even more evident. He had found
Doris feverish, restless. For the first
time the child appeared discouraged.
“I guess God don't want me to get ’well
and walk like other folks,” she said, hang
ing to Peter's hand. Mrs. Howard was
very religious and the little Invalid girl
often mentioned God as if He were very
near her.
“What makes you think God doesn’t want
you to get well?” Teter asked, a lump in
his throat.
“I dreamed last night I was in heaven
and that I. could walk like the other angels,
but I never dreamed I could walk here with
mamma and Mabel. So I think God don't
want me to.”
“But that was only a dream, dear. And
dreams aren't true —this one won’t be if
you are a good little girl and don t fret.
"I get awful tired, Dr. Peter.”
“I know! That cast isn’t very comfort
able but when it comes off we'll have you
in a nice soft woolly wrapper and you’ll be
as snug and comfortable as can be. You
have been Dr. Peter's brave little girl so
far you’re not going to disappoint me now,
ar© you? I have called you my 'star
patient.’ ”
“What’s that, a star patient?”
“The very best and bravest of all my
children. I call all the little ones at the
hospital ‘my children.’ I guess I have the
biggest family of anyone you know, haven't
“I guess you have. Mrs. Brown in our
village has nine, and Mrs. Carter has six,
and^—why they have the most of anybody.
How many have you got, Dr. Peter?”
“Let me see! About one hundred and
fifty now, sometimes I have more.”
“That’s an awful big family,” she smiled
at him.
“Os course it is, and I love them all, but
I think I love my little star patient best of
all.”
“That’s nice! I like to be your star pa
tient. I am going to tell Mrs. Williams
that’s my name now, may I?”
“Os course you may! And I’ll come in
again this afternoon and tell you more about
what a star patient means. Shall you be
glad to see me?”
“Awful glad.”
“Would you like sister Mabel to come in
for a wihle this afternoon?”
Slow tears rolled down the thin cheeks.
“I’d love it! Mabel makes me forget
more'n anybody. She always tells me such \
lovely stories and makes me laugh. Hardly
anybody else makes me laugh real hard
but her. You see she’s always known me—
so of course she is my favorite. Mamma is
lovely, and so is Mrs. Williams, but they
are older. They don’t know so well what
little girls like as Mabel does.”
“All right, you shall have Mabel this aft
ernoon. And to pay me for sparing her to
you, you must promise to eat your lunch- I
eon, every bit of it, then take a nice nap.
When you wake up Mabel will be here arid
tell you a nice story. Is it a bargain?”
"Yes—it’s a bargain— only—it's awful
hard to eat when I ain’t hungry. I can’t
hardly make it go down, even if they do give
me nice things.”
I know, dear. I’ve felt, that way many
times myself. But our stomachs haye to ba
fed if we are going to be strong"and well.
And that little tunimy of yours hasn’t had
enough lately. I expect it’s crying for food
this minute.”
Walking home, Peter was very thought
ful. He would have to make some arrange
ment so that Miss Howard could spend her
tune with Doris—for a time at least. The
child must be kept from fretting.
So it was that he carried an anxious face
when he joined Althea at luncheon.
"You still look worried, Peter,” Althea
said. “If you take your patients’ troubles
so to heart you ivill be ill. Surely that
child had all the attention she needs? You
looked after that very thoroughly I should
say.”
"I have tried to. Sometimes I wonder,
Althea, if people, anyone realizes how near
to a physician's heart his work is? And
with a lovabl© child like Doris the feeling
becomes very poignant. The operation, too
•—one most of the doctors said could not be
performed, that she would not live through
•—was a perfect success as far as I could
determine. To have it fail now, to lose that
little girl would be terrible to ifie.” His 1
eyes misted.
Althea tried not to notice, not to feel com
passion. In reality she cared nothing for
this child she never had seen but she cared
very much for I’eter, although he did not
know it.
Suddenly she made up her mind—the
thought that so long had intrigued her
crystalized.
Continued Thtfrsday. This story is near
ing tlie end. Renew now to avoid missing
the concluding chapters.
MENTAL INFECTION
By H. Addington Bruce
IT is always in order to call attention to
truths which people, to their great peril,
frequently ignore. One such truth, of
vital importance to everybody, is the neces
sity of careful choosing of friends with a
view to avoid mental infection.
Many seem curiously blind to the fact that
I the adage “Birds of a feather flock together”
i has in the mental realm an equally valid cor
relate, “Flocking together makes birds of a
feather.” More men and women have “gone
wrong’’ as a result of mental infection from
unwisely chosen friends than from any other
single cause.
Again and again we see repeated the tragic
history of the young man who, alert and
ambitious, comes from a village or small
town to seek his fortune in a large city.
Finding employment, he at the same time
finds himself in daily contact with a great
variety of associates.
High-spirited and enejgetic, he -naturally
is attracted by the hign-spirited and ener
getic among these associates. .Soon he falls
into the habit of keeping company particu
larly with one or two. They are vivacious,
genia], and on the surface eminently likeable.
The young man from the country does not j
look beneath the surface. He is flattered by
the attention shown him. He begins to spend
all his evenings with his new friends, and
through them is introduced into a little
coterie of other lively young fellows—who,
however, have only liveliness to recommend
them.
Little by little—unless a happy chance
awakens him to his danger—mental infection
enters to alter his attitude to life and to spoil
his life prospects.
(Copyright, 1924.)
new ideas. That is why a fresh and pro
ductive personality has a hard time of it In
the pulpit. Yle will have a few ardent fol
lowers, who enjoy his ministry, but he will
find that most people appreciate the gentle
herding of t-he dear old shibboleths.
But to me the man who comes with a
new idea is epochal. I shall never be thp
same again. He has unsealed my eyes and
showed me “the armies of the Lord round
about the city.” He has given me of “the
water of life.” Forevermore he has a
property right in my soul.
(Copyright, 1921.)